Harris-Walz / Dems

[Paladin]

Biden nominates Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court

President Joe Biden nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court on Friday, setting in motion a historic confirmation process for the first Black woman to sit on the highest court in the nation.

www.cnn.com

so, let's see if she actually gets a seat.

 

[Teufel]

This is... weird and counterproductive.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1498414280751919115

 

[Anonymous X]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1522304054084390914

The president of America standing next to a man whose jacket is adorned with the legend “eat the rich”. From the official twitter account. What timeline are we in, again?!

 

[Dekafox]

Not to mention we're 2 years in and haven't even broken double digits on this thread...

 

[Ungnome]

To be far, the forums were wiped and nu-allspark has only been running since September 2021. We'd probably be at 3 or 4 pages by now if it wasn't for that.

 

[Pocket]

Every time Democrats hang out with union leaders for the sake of PR, I'm only reminded once again that if we had a government that really cared about workers' rights, we wouldn't even need unions because everything they exist to fight for would already be the law of the land.

 

[Rust]

Not to mention we're 2 years in and haven't even broken double digits on this thread...

Imma be real with you.
I've kind of stopped paying much attention to the day to day insanity of politics. Trump legitimately burnt me out. Even the current nonsense involving Roe v Wade has me staring in a weary form of defeat.

My thoughts are very, very dark when it comes to anything political these days.

 

[Pocket]

Also Biden hasn't really done much of anything to post about. Not only is his administration not a trainwreck like Trump's was, he also hasn't said or done a lot to celebrate either. Which is bad—we've got a wannabe caretaker president in a time of multiple imminent crises—but it's harder to talk about all the nothing that he's doing.

 

[Rust]

Democrat Leadership most definitely is invoking the comic of the dog sitting amidst fire saying "This is fine."

 

[Spin-Out]

i've given up on anything getting better in the next two decades aside from maybe some actual progress on climate when we reach the point where Republicans have a broken clock moment like BoJo and realize it's a problem that affects them, too. other than that i'm preparing to find a way to survive and help my friends in the inevitable Christian Reich. my main hope is the Christian Reich collapses quickly enough that they don't get to the point where they get to enact their Holocaust 2.0 on LGBTQ+ people, and we end up getting Anti-Republican/QAnon laws from the center-left democracy that topples them, like in Germany post-WWII.

 

[Paladin]

Behold the "opposition party."

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1524050967485898757

 

[Ironbite4]

You wanna know why she clings to this fantasy? Because that's when the GOP wasn't bugnuts insane.

Ironbite-they were mean but they weren't what they are now.

 

[Rust]

I can honestly feel for them a bit. There are colleagues they've worked along side for decades, who were ideologically different but fundamentally rational up to what strikes them as extremely recently.

The problem ultimately is because they were working alongside these people for decades, the little eccentricities of the party went unnoticed or dismissed. "Just politics", ignoring the fundamental rot in the party's foundation that's been festering for half a century at this point. They got gaslit by their own colleagues, believing they were rational and sane. Now that the mask is deliberately being pulled off, they're blindsided.

Nancy Pelosi is the character in a Zombie movie who is pleading through tears as a former loved one shambles towards them, desperate to hold to the belief that they would never hurt her.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

Her friends across the aisle have been calling her a crazy radical for decades now.

 

[Rust]

In public. The theater stage production. They were all smiles and polite conversation when the cameras turned away.

 

[NovaSaber]

Republicans have been anti-abortion for literally longer than Pelosi has been in politics, though. (Just slightly longer, but still longer.)

 

[wonko the sane?]

And until recently: they would have never actually done anything about abortion because they wanted a culture war talking point and not actual actionable events. The horrible thing about all this is how effective the republicans actually are, but it's always for monstrous jive.

 

[Paladin]

Biden urges cities to spend Covid relief money on police, crime prevention

New York, Washington and a number of other major cities have reported increases in violent crime since the start of the pandemic.

www.nbcnews.com

This administration is working tirelessly to ensure no Democrat is ever elected again.

 

[CoffeeHorse]

A number of major cities have reported surges in crime rates since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

So why shouldn't he do this?

 

[Wheelimus]

Yeah sorry but some cities need more cops. The canal in Indianapolis could sure use some extra night shift cops so people stop dying so often. And I trust the cities Democratic mayor to spend the money on good ones in strategic places, not just more cops on the highway pulling over the wrong people. It really depends on the city. Indianapolis is beautiful, I'd love to feel safer to visit it more often and see Gizmoboy.